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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BrandonP: [QB] Anyway, as far as the "romanticization" of ancient Egypt goes... Most people tend to be drawn to wealth and glamor, especially in capitalist societies like ours which define success by how much money someone earns or how famous they become. Even our historiography tends to fixate on the rich and powerful leaders more than other individuals from the past. Furthermore, I've always had the feeling that Black people by and large were tired of their history being constantly represented as one of enslavement, poverty, and struggling for civil rights. No wonder they like to call each other kings and queens! Compound that with racist narratives about Black people being incapable of developing advanced civilizations and it's no wonder that they're so infatuated with African empires like Egypt, Kush, Mali, etc. That said, I don't know if the general public does in fact view ancient Egypt with romanticized rose-tinted glasses. Egyptophiles might, but most representations of pharaonic Egyptian civilization in pop culture emphasize the creepy mummies, slavery and other forms of coerced labor (if they don't suggest it was the aliens who built the pyramids), or Cleopatra's sexualized shenanigans. Ancient Egypt might be seen as cool in an exoticized sort of way, but it doesn't seem to be revered to the same extent as the classical Greeks and the Roman Empire. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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